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Historical person
1895–1952
George VI became king of the United Kingdom in 1936 after the abdication of Edward VIII. His reign is closely associated with the Second World War, the survival of the monarchy during national crisis and the transition from empire toward Commonwealth.
In Hilary Green’s Operation Fortitude, the trail connects occupied France to the Allied deception surrounding D-Day and to a proposed attack on King George VI. Winston Graham’s Cameo places George VI within the wider historical setting developed by the novel.
In non-fiction, George VI is discussed in Tracy Borman’s Crown & Sceptre and Gareth Russell’s The Palace. Tracy Borman’s Crown & Sceptre approaches the subject through political ambition and government, empire, conquest and resistance, and family, marriage and personal loyalty.
Historical context
Series
The Kim Maxwell thrillers follow a Special Operations Executive agent whose capture in France has made her commanders cautious but has not diminished her determination to return to the field. In Operation Lightning Bolt she investigates the murder of an agent at a Hampshire establishment and discovers a…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
